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went to an elementaryschool musical production and they started the show with the director saying: "Now there's some very small viewers here today, so just so you know. There will be a scary character later in the show. This is her," and a girl in a kinda scary ghost outfit did a creepy walk across the stage, then stood up straight and did a cheery wave, "but remember, it's just Nina. She's pretending to be scary."

Aaaand i would very much like for horror movies to have that as a little bonus feature you can chose. Let me start a movie with Guillermo del Toro showing me a scary ghost that might jump at me, but don't worry, thats just Doug!

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it is so important that you are a little bit ugly. please get comfortable with having unplucked eyebrows and nonexistent jawlines and wrinkles. let your blue hair grow out into an uneven pale green and your clothes be old and mend them and modify them until they’re unique to you. wear lipstick which doesnt compliment your skintone and mismatched outfits which went out of fashion 5 years ago. be a little bit too loud and a little bit too passionate and as weird as you can be because oh my god there is nothing more disturbing to me than perfection. beauty is manufactured and sold to us and you need to realise that you are a fucking animal to live a joyful life I am so serious. you cant obsess over aesthetics forever please just live messily and make your body your home however you please.

if you dont do it for you, do it for all the teenagers who will see u in the street and know that they are not obligated to be attractive

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Been watching streams of Pipistrello and the Cursed YoYo, and this lil bat has definitely grown on me. For some reason I decided I wanted to put him in a gurren lagann-esque title card, and it ended up being fun. And now my brain keeps repeating "Row! Row! Pipistre-llo!"

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Avengers Academy: Assemble #1 (2025)

written by Anthony Oliveira art by Carola Borelli, Bailie Rosenlund, Carlos Lopez, & KJ Diaz

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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur - The Gatekeeper

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the post in the blue prince tag accusing the game of being made with AI made me do a deep dive into the dev and the artists who worked on the game, the inspirations behind it, and all of that — and tbh? the art team and dev are all so talented. this game took eight years to make! handcrafted! commissioned pieces from a woodcut artist who inspired the dev in his childhood with a puzzle book that still to this day has not been solved! iconic, honestly.

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Hey, just so anyone whose mind isn't rotted by video essayists knows: The anti-LGBT film Lady Ballers produced by the Daily Wire was supposed to be a documentary. The original plan behind the film was that they were going to actually get a bunch of men to dress in drag and enter into women's sports, then record the results.

However, the barrier of entry for trans women to qualify for admission into women's sports proved to be prohibitively high, and they couldn't find any men willing to go the extra mile in undergoing hormone therapy and transitioning to the point they met the criteria for admission.

The Daily Wire accidentally disproved and discredited the entire concept of "men in women's sports", and were forced to turn the film into a shitty piece of comedy fiction instead.

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Hooray! Yay! Dykes!

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! SLIMED !

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Bystander Intervention Training

so, the US just attacked Iran, and that is fucking terrible. Something we all need to think about right now is how we can stop the harassment and violence against Muslims and Arabs in the US that got so much worse in the early 2000s from happening again to people now.

To that end, I wanted to share some resources on Bystander Intervention. One of the biggest things I learned from training like this is that there are many ways to intervene, and they don't all involve putting yourself in front of the person who may harm you or others. It's ok if you feel intimidated by that because there are more ways to help! And once you do the training, it might not be so scary.

Right to Be has Bystander trainings based on the 5Ds of Bystander Intervention (Distract, Delegate, Document, Delay, and Direct). The trainings are free!! sign up here.

I took one of their trainings a few years ago (when the org was called Hollaback!) and it was really very good, they have trainings at multiple levels and focused on various topics. They also partner with other orgs to focus on specific issues (like anti-AAPI harassment and with CAIR Chicago for anti-Muslim harassment, etc.).

Here are a few more resources:

APA Bystander Intervention Tip Sheet

RAINN Practicing Bystander Intervention

I think I'll sign up for one as a refresher.

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mom: what’s your primary news source? me: *thinks about the Destiel meme which could tell me aliens had been discovered and I would believe it in a heartbeat*

me: New York Times

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wolves in the woods

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Good girl!

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Your body must be rested and fed if you wish to be a pervert.

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Trans health tip— if you have a chronic health issue and are trying to figure out if it’s safe for you to go on HRT, don’t look for trans-specific studies. They don’t exist. At this point in history no one is spending the money to discover intersectional health issues in the trans community

The studies that DO exist are for cis people taking the same hormones. Remember, it’s not your genome that matters, it’s the hormones currently in your endocrine system.

Thinking about estrogen but not sure how your body might react? Look up studies on the impact of hormonal birth control on the condition, and that will give you a good sense on the level of interaction

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when gerard way sings "the broken, the beaten, and the damned" and when kermit the frog sings "the lovers, the dreamers, and me" they're talking about the same people btw